Charges laid against alleged BC bus attacker

VANCOUVER -- Charges have been laid against a woman accused of attacking three children after refusing to pay bus fare in Langley, B.C.
A commuter who filmed the fight between two women recalled what she saw to QMI Agency.
Hanna Koekman said she was headed to work near Willowbrook Shopping Centre on Tuesday when a “grungy-looking” woman — blonde with worn-out clothes and in her 40s — boarded the bus without paying and sat down.
That’s when Koekman said a mother of three children intervened, prompting an outburst from the woman.
“Something along the lines of, 'I’m going to kill you and your kids'," she said, and tossed a somewhat-filled paper coffee cup, striking the youngest child on his shoulder.

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“(The mom) just lost it, went nuts ... the lady that threw the drink went to kick her and the lady with the kids just started beating her, as you can see in the video,” Koekman said.
She said the bus driver told one woman to get off the rear door and the other to leave via the front. Many of the other passengers had disembarked as well.
“I got off and I was walking to work. I heard the (mom) yell, and I went up to her and she said, ‘Oh my God, she just tried to stab me'.”
The children didn’t appear to be seriously injured, though two of them had red marks on their skin, Koekman said.
“It was really freaky. When it first started I didn’t think it was going to escalate as much as it did. To keep going after she got off the bus was even more nerve-racking,” she said.
Koekman added she has sent an e-mail to police to report what she saw, but has not heard back.
Leah Susan MacKay is charged with two counts of assault with a weapon, one count of assault and one count of uttering threats, RCMP Cpl. Holly Marks said.

petros

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Re: Charges laid against alleged BC bus attacker

May 23rd, 2014

Jib rat...

bill barilko

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Re: Charges laid against alleged BC bus attacker

May 23rd, 2014

Quote: Originally Posted by petros

Jib rat...

Note she boarded the bus in Surrey that bastion of jib rats, tweakers, junkies and worse.

It's incidents like these that have stopped me from ever applying for a job driving for translink-it's just not worth it.